YouTube API Services: Making the dislike count private
This is an e-mail a get from YouTube. Dear YouTube API developer, We would like to inform you of upcoming changes to YouTube that will impact the data available via the Data API starting December 13, 2021. On November 10, YouTube will be making the public dislike count private. Users will still be able to dislike videos, and creators will still have access to the dislike counts for their own videos in YouTube Studio. Learn more about this change in our blog post. To make the dislike count private across the platform, we also will be removing public access to the dislike count data via our API. Here are details on how this will and will not affect the API: The dislike_count field within the statistics part of the video resource will be omitted on calls to the video.list endpoint except in cases in which the request is being authenticated as a user (such as the creator or the agent user) who owns the video that is being requested. The videos.rate endpoint will be unaffec
